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.

Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a grand mausoleum.

* November 17, 794 (): The emperor traveled by carriage from Nara to the new capital of Heian-kyō in a grand procession.

New World's budget breakdown for Godzilla 1985 is as follows: $ 500, 000 to lease the film from Toho, $ 200, 000 for filming the new scenes and other revisions, and $ 2, 500, 000 for prints and advertising, adding up to a grand total of approximately $ 3, 200, 000.

The new particles predicted by models of grand unification cannot be observed directly at particle colliders because their masses are expected to be of the order of the so-called GUT scale, which is predicted to be just a few orders of magnitude below the Planck scale and thus far beyond the reach of currently foreseen collision experiments.

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.

The Electors of Regensburg ( who had succeeded to the Mainz vote ), Würzburg ( who had succeeded to the Salzburg vote ), and Baden ( a new electorate ) became grand dukes.

He saw himself as doing Allah's bidding, yet he was inquisitive enough to explore new ideas about religion, intelligent enough to understand that Hindus were in the majority and grand enough in his pretensions not to need to obey every line of the Qur ' an.

To help with his move to London, and with the design of the new German Embassy Ribbentrop had built ( the existing Embassy was insufficiently grand for Ribbentrop ), Ribbentrop, at his wife's suggestion, hired a Berlin interior decorator named Martin Luther.

In the most solemn of ceremonies, for example at the coronation of a new Emperor, the Emperor's subjects would undertake the ceremony of the " three kneelings and nine kowtows ", the so-called grand kowtow, which involves kneeling from a standing position three times, and each time, performing the kowtow three times while kneeling.

In the end, the grand duchy remained a monarchy but was led by a new head of state, Charlotte.

In the 1950s, a unique opportunity to translate the Radiant City on a grand scale presented itself in the construction of the Union Territory Chandigarh, the new capital for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the first planned city in India.

For example, when a grand new house was required by the new owner of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, in the 1830s, the site of the existing manor house at the edge of its village was abandoned for a new one, isolated in its park, with the village out of view.

The new German Empire was a federation: each of its 25 constituent states ( kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities ) retained some autonomy.

Many jurisdictions, however, allow the prosecution to seek a new preliminary hearing, or even seek a bill of indictment from a grand jury.

The company's 2005 announcement that a new V8-powered 4-door grand tourer model called Panamera would be launched in 2009 fueled rumors and fan speculation of a reborn 928.

Some beyond-the-Standard Model grand unified theories ( GUTs ) explicitly break the baryon number symmetry, allowing protons to decay via the Higgs particle, magnetic monopoles or new X bosons.

I think all the grand leading facts of geographical distribution are explicable on the theory of migration ( generally of the more dominant forms of life ), together with subsequent modification and the multiplication of new forms.

International officials who met with representatives of the new alliance, which Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll referred to as the " grand Pashtun-Tajik alliance ", said, " It's crazy that you have this today ... Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara ...

The new underground facility provides a grand entrance hall, a visitors theater, room for exhibits, and dining and restroom facilities, in addition to space for building necessities such as an underground service tunnel.

In 1806, Baden was raised to a grand duchy and parts of the former Palatinate including Mannheim became part of the new grand duchy.

The main entrance through the circuit wall was made grand by the best known feature of Mycenae, the Lion Gate, through which passed a stepped ramp leading past circle A and up to the palace.

Baldur's Gate is ruled by four grand dukes, the Council of Four.

The Gate of all Nations, referring to subjects of the empire, consisted of a grand hall that was a square of approximately in length, with four columns and its entrance on the Western Wall.

The house was split into three separate residential lots in the 1970s, the main part of the house forming ' Hillcrest ', the west wing of the house with the main grand staircase and gardens forming ' Max Gate ', and the billiards room forming the bungalow ' South Brent '.

To mark this occasion, a grand parade is held near Rajpath in New Delhi, the capital of India, beginning from Raisina Hill near the Rashtrapati Bhavan ( Presidential Palace ), along the Rajpath, past India Gate and on to the historic Red Fort in the old quarter of the city.

A lion's head on the Westland GateIn 1905 the formal entrance to Olmsted's park was switched to the end of Westland Avenue where the Westland Gate marks a somewhat grand portal to the park.

Old Campus includes Yale's oldest building, Connecticut Hall, and a grand entrance from the green at Phelps Gate.

In such times, parties have formed all-party coalitions ( national unity governments, grand coalitions ).

Since in 2008, the CSU lost its absolute majority in Bavaria and formed a coalition with the FDP, the grand coalition had no majority in the Bundesrat and depended on FDP votes on important issues.

His successor was Kurt Georg Kiesinger ( CDU ), who formed a grand coalition with the SPD.

Until 1581 the history of Belgium ( except the Bishopric of Liège ), the grand duchy of Luxembourg and the country the Netherlands is the same: they formed the country / region of the Netherlands or the Low Countries.

Bosnian soldiers formed a large component of the Ottoman ranks in the battles of Mohács and Krbava field, two decisive military victories, while numerous other Bosnians rose through the ranks of the Ottoman military bureaucracy to occupy the highest positions of power in the Empire, including admirals, generals, and grand viziers.

Erhard's government was short-lived, however, and in 1966 a grand coalition between the SPD and CDU was formed, with Brandt as Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor.

A grand coalition was formed under Lothar de Maizière, leader of the East German wing of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, on a platform of speedy reunification.

Homerton became a desirable suburb of London in the Tudor period, with many estates and grand houses being formed from the former Templar lands ( Knights Templar of St. John of Jerusalem ).

The modern street pattern of Kennington was formed by the early nineteenth century ; the village had become a semi-rural suburb with grand terraced houses.

On his death the old oligarchic republic political structure was restored-a consiglio maggiore (" grand council ") of four hundred members and a consiglio minore (" small council ") of forty members-and it formed a league with Padua, Treviso and Verona.

The rivers together formed natural borders for an area which harboured several grand ancient civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria.

On March 23, 1889, Fox and Lutz formed the Riverdale Park Company, which was named in honor of the grand Federal-style mansion at the center of the proposed community.

The great staircase, designed to be grand and imposing, rose to the east side of the house, and formed part of the guest's state route from the Hall and Saloon on the first floor to the principal dining room and bedroom on the second.

The noble grand masters were often fellows of the Royal Society, but the Duke of Wharton ( 1722 – 23 ) had just had his Hell-fire club shut down by the government, and joined, or possibly formed, an anti-masonic group called the Gorgomons almost as soon as he left office.

Although a few authors cite the existence of German operative grand lodges as far back as that formed at Cologne Cathedral in 1250, continuity of tradition has been hard to prove, and most sources believe these early German speculative lodges show descent from the English model.

The term was brought into prominence by Lyotard in 1979, with his claim that the postmodern was characterised precisely by a mistrust of the grand narratives – Progress, Enlightement emancipation, Marxism – which had formed an essential part of modernity.

Certain grand unified theories predict topological defects to have formed in the early universe.

The SDAPÖ became the strongest party and formed a grand coalition with the Christian Social Party ( CS ).

In the long protracted coalition negotiations that followed a grand coalition was formed with Gusenbauer as Chancellor in a grand coalition with the ÖVP which was finally sworn in January 2007, 3 months after the elections.

The SDL Party of Prime Minister Qarase had formed a grand coalition of ethnic Fijian parties to unite the Fijians.

Political leaders coalesced into two grand camps: a Political Bureau formed by the radical Ahmed Ben Bella, who was assisted by the border army, faced off against the political leadership in the former exile government ; Boumédiène's army quickly put down resistance and installed Ben Bella as President.

After the 1983 election, the party formed a grand coalition with the rival Socialist Party, before winning election under new leader Aníbal Cavaco Silva in 1985.

Falling short of a majority, however, the Socialists formed a grand coalition, known as the Central Block, with the PSD.