Verdi's grand opera, Aida, is sometimes thought to have been commissioned for the celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but, according to one major critic, Verdi turned down the Khedive's invitation to write an " ode " for the new opera house he was planning to inaugurate as part of the canal opening festivities.

But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

* At a grand celebration of his daughter Cleopatra's marriage to Alexander I of Epirus ( brother of Olympias ), Philip II is assassinated at Aegae by Pausanias of Orestis, a young Macedonian noble with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle Attalus and against Philip for denying him justice.

On December 31, 1776 one year after the Battle of Quebec, a mass was held in celebration of the British success, and Carleton threw a grand ball.

The Tercentenary celebration occurs in a grand fashion with much partying and festivities, but takes a turn for the worse when Prime Minister Stolypin is shot at an opera performance in Kiev.

The festival is a grand celebration of the harvest season and the warm rich diversity of the artisans and people who call the picturesque mountains of Morgan County home.

But the most elaborate and grand celebration occurred at Abydos, the cult center of Osiris.

They held a grand celebration, and many women came.

The museum opened on January 1, 1903 with a grand celebration featuring a performance by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a menu that included champagne and doughnuts.

On Vijaydashami day, at the culmination of a colourful 10-day celebration, the goddess Chamundeshwari is worshiped and then borne in a grand procession on a Golden Ambari or elephant-mounted throne through the city of Mysore, from the historical Mysore Palace to the Banni Mantapa.

He was made mayor of the city of Philadelphia in 1735, and celebrated the opening of the nearly complete State House the following year by having a feast for all citizens and guests of the city — a celebration that was described as " the most grand, the most elegant entertainment that has been made in these parts of America.

The international critical renown that Eisenstein garnered from this film enabled the Russian filmmaker to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

In 2008, there was a grand celebration in the Thai traditional music circle, to mark the 100th anniversary of the introduction of angklung to Thailand.

Built for $ 2, 700, 000, Memorial Auditorium's grand opening celebration was held on October 14, 1940.

The group started its celebration with a grand world tour that will take them to five continents.

The Mandi festival or fair is particularly famous as the special fair transforms Mandi town into a venue of grand celebration when all gods and goddesses, said to be more than 200 deities of the Mandi district assemble here, starting with the day of Shivaratri.

" Leaping from straw hat-to-straw hat of five men arranged from back-to-front in ascending order of height, Buddy manages to see the grand celebration: a baton wielder bounces his belly ; a drum, held by two marchers, is host to six tiny people who jump upon it ; in addition to trumpeters and tiny men whose hats double as cymbals, the procession happens to include a pianist!

On September 18, 2011, the park had a grand opening celebration for its first office area, which is from the Profile Trail-head on NC 105.

Births, funerals, and weddings are often occasion for grand celebration among the region's non-Muslim populations, as well.

At an African American Fourth of July celebration at Louisville ’ s camp — one that followed a parade through the city streets, including some fifteen hundred armed black and white soldiers and band — Palmer, arriving in a gilded circus chariot, told an estimated twenty thousand attendees, most of whom he had already been assured believed the general was there to declare them free ( and who he claimed later he set out to inform otherwise ), “ My countrymen, you are free, and while I command in this department the military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom .” That one of its circuit courts was soon to strike down Congress ’ s act of March 3, 1865, liberating black soldiers ’ dependants — some 72, 045 individuals, or by one USCT officer ’ s estimate, “ wo and one half persons freed, for each Colored Soldier enlisted in the State of Kentucky ” and two-thirds of the state ’ s slaves — only fueled the general ’ s intent to cure the state ’ s white residents of “ Negrophobia in its worst form .” “ Slavery is dead in Kentucky ,” he crowed to his wife in October 1865, “ and my Mission is accomplished .” He was soon met with an indictment by Louisville ’ s grand jury for aiding fugitive slaves and a wave of lawsuits from dispossessed Kentucky slaveholders.

The feast of St. Sebastian in Arthunkal is a grand celebration extending for two weeks in January.

The celebration is usually organized by the individual's children, younger siblings and grand children.

As celebration of being the first street interview show in over 20 years to reach a fifth season, Street Smarts announced a $ 100, 000 tournament where the top winners of the season would play a single-elimination tournament for a grand prize of $ 100, 000.

Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ’ s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year ’ s Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011 ; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall ; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City ; the Governor ’ s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008 ; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia ; two sold-out concerts at Paris ’ legendary L ’ Olympia Theatre in 2011 ; and Paris ' fashion house Lanvin ’ s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

This time, it was so grand ; ;

Karns said it was a `` wrongful act '' for Wexler to take statements `` privately and outside of the grand jury room ''.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

The whole matter was solemnly submitted to a grand council of prelates, senators, ministers and other dignitaries on 13 June 1718.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

On his return to Nuremberg, Dürer worked on a number of grand projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a Sacra Conversazione, though neither was completed.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

The Swedenborgian church was so grand that it was considered to be the ‘ Cathedral ’ of that denomination.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.