" The great Victorian baritone Sir Charles Santley made his farewell performance at Covent Garden in 1911 in the role of Tom Tug in Dibdin's opera The Waterman.

Henry Courtney Selous | H. C. Selous ' illustration of Valentine and Proteus ' farewell in Act 1, Scene 1 ; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Comedies, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke ( 1830 )

The station shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009 at 11: 59 PM ( 23: 59 ) EST, playing a farewell video of outdoor scenes around Georgia set to the tune of " Georgia On My Mind " by Ray Charles, the official state song, before permanently ceasing transmission.

The Last Waltz was advertised as The Band's " farewell concert appearance ", and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles, Neil Young and The Staple Singers.

He made his Covent Garden farewell in 1911 as Tom Tug in Charles Dibdin's The Waterman.

Queen Henrietta Maria stayed at Kingswood House on 18 April 1644 en route to Exeter, having said her final farewell to her husband King Charles I a few days before at Oxford.

The principal British guest was Charles, Prince of Wales who read a farewell speech on behalf of the Queen.

) Before its departure to California in 1922, The Blue Boy was briefly put on display at the National Gallery where it was seen by 90, 000 people ; the Gallery's director Charles Holmes was moved to scrawl farewell words on the back of the painting: " Au Revoir, C. H.

Her farewell premiere was at the Vienna State Opera in the title role of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide ( with Charles Mackerras as conductor, Claus Helmut Drese as director, and Hans Schavernoch as set designer ).

This simple sequence of events has been cluttered up by a series of bizarre coincidences: Cathcart's mistress's farewell arriving on the same night that news of his cheating reaches Gerald ; his suicide happening on the same night that Gerald planned to meet Mrs. Grimethorpe ; and Gerald arriving back to stumble over the body just as Mary comes out for her rendezvous with Goyles.

They briefly stopped over in Perth, Western Australia but a planned farewell performance on a temporary stage set up on the tarmac at Perth Airport had to be cancelled amid chaotic scenes, with 4000 fans breaking through barriers and storming the runway.

A formal farewell was planned at NASA headquarters after the Memorial Day holiday and was televised on NASA TV.

A farewell concert was planned and on March 30, 2007, the Rheostatics played Toronto's Massey Hall, the largest venue that they had played as headliners.

Her " farewell " performance with the group in its last line-up occurred on Sunday, June 12 of that year at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, England.

On Sunday 18 March 2001, Dekkers fought his farewell fight against Marino Deflorin in Rotterdam.

* Steele, S. 2005, ' Lions farewell a favourite ', The Sunday Mail, 28 August, p. 98.

After the final ever show, former and current Sunday staff gathered for a final farewell function at the Union Hotel in North Sydney.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

Stalin's death, Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, Quemoy and Matsu -- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

Foreign policy themes were expressed considerably in George Washington's farewell address ; these included among other things, observing good faith and justice towards all nations and cultivating peace and harmony with all, excluding both " inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others ", " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ", and advocating trade with all nations.

The Council asked him to appear once more for a farewell ritual and celebratory orations.

The Council asked him to appear once more for a farewell ritual and celebratory orations.

In a dignified speech he bade farewell to those about him, declaring: " It is far more just to perish one for all, than many for one ", and then retiring to rest soundly for some hours.

In many languages the word for peace is also used a greeting or a farewell, for example the Hawaiian word Aloha, as well as the Arabic word salaam.

In English the word peace is occasionally used as a farewell, especially for the dead, as in the phrase ' Rest In Peace ' RIP.

The Gospel of John does not include this episode, but tells of Jesus washing the feet of the Apostles, giving the new commandment " to love one another as I have loved you ", and has a detailed farewell discourse by Jesus, calling the Apostles who follow his teachings " friends and not servants ", as he prepares them for his departure.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Writing in " Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde " (" A Communication to my Friends ") in 1851, Wagner claimed that Der fliegende Holländer represented a new start for him: " From here begins my career as poet, and my farewell to the mere concoctor of opera-texts.

About twenty minutes after the tenth ( last ) dish is served, the groom and bride, along with their families, will line up at the entrance / exit to bid the guests farewell and thank them for coming.

He bids farewell to his mother, promising that no matter where he runs, he will be a tireless advocate for the oppressed.

She bid farewell to Pergami, and embarked for England.

In bidding you farewell, rest assured that you carry with you my best wishes for your future welfare and happiness.

Just prior to the capture of La Moneda ( the Presidential Palace ), with gunfire and explosions clearly audible in the background, Allende gave his farewell speech to Chileans on live radio, speaking of himself in the past tense, of his love for Chile and of his deep faith in its future.

At the beginning of their farewell tour on 4 October 1968, in Oakland, nearly the entire set consisted of songs from Wheels of Fire: " White Room ", " Politician ", " Crossroads ", " Spoonful ", " Deserted Cities of the Heart ", and " Passing the Time " taking the place of " Toad " for a drum solo.

Bruce had three Marshall stacks on stage for the farewell shows but one acted only as a spare, and he only used one or two, depending on the song.

His farewell speech to the Staff College on the success of Mussolini's Abyssinian campaign was not well received, probably because of its emphasis on the more-mechanised approach of the Italian Army compared with the British Army.

* The Alceste ( original Italian version edited by Geraint Jones ) in which she also made a farewell was recorded with Raoul Jobin, Alexander Young, Marion Lowe, Thomas Hemsley, Joan Clark, Rosemary Thayer, Geraint Jones Orchestra and singers, Geraint Jones ( Decca LP LXT 5273-5276 ;.

The late Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti was due to play at the ground in 2006, but cancelled his farewell UK tour due to ill health.

Once the war was over, after two years of silence, Trio Lescano bade farewell to their Italian audience with a final performance broadcast live on radio on 1 September 1945.

" Giovinezza " was composed by lawyer and composer Giuseppe Blanc in 1909 as " Commiato " ( Italian for " farewell ").

A loyal servant of PAOK, Mussy was rewarded with a farewell game against Italian club Palermo on 3rd May 2012.