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* A list of French victories is engraved under the great arches on the inside façades of the monument.
It is Edwards ' and Mullan's hope that the monument will be a demonstration of how sport can reach across great political chasms and help heal the hurts of history.
Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).
Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).
The abstract monument sparked a great deal of controversy when it was unveiled, being dubbed with names such as " the olive in the toothpick ", (" măslina-n scobitoare "), as many argued that it does not fit in its surroundings and believed that its choice was based on political reasons.
The Colosseum can be thus interpreted as a great triumphal monument built in the Roman tradition of celebrating great victories, placating the Roman people instead of returning soldiers.
On August 25, 1996, about a year after his death, Mantle's Monument Park plaque was replaced with a monument, bearing the words " A great teammate " and keeping a phrase that had been included on the original plaque: " A magnificent Yankee who left a legacy of unequaled courage.
During the fortification work, a party of knights entered the base of the monument and discovered the room containing a great coffin.
The town was built with great regularity, in the form of a square, measuring 16 stadia in circumference ; it had four gates, and all its streets intersected one another at right angles, so that from a monument in the centre all the four gates could be seen.
* On June 26, 2009 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Argúello placed flowers at a monument for Roberto Clemente to honor the late baseball great.
According to Dolon, Hector and the other councilors were holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult.
Scheduling offers protection because it makes it illegal to undertake a great range of ' works ' within a designated area, without first obtaining ' scheduled monument consent '.
There is no appeal against the scheduling process and adding a monument to the schedule may be a process requiring a great deal of research and consideration.
There is a bronze monument made by the French artist Ossip Zadkine of Vincent and his brother Theo on the " Vincent van Gogh Plein " ( Vincent van Gogh square ), as a tribute to the great artist van Gogh.
There are two approaches to the palace's grand entrance, one from the long straight drive through wrought iron gates directly into the Great Court, while the other, equally if not more impressive, betrays Vanbrugh's true vision: the palace as a bastion or strong citadel, the true monument and home to a great warrior.
The monument caused great controversy amongst the archaeological world, with political pressure being put upon archaeologists by the government of Rhodesia to deny its construction by black people.
The great monument of his episcopate is the eleven famous charges in which he from time to time reviewed the position of the English Church with reference to whatever might be the most pressing question of the day — addresses at once judicial and statesmanlike, full of charitable wisdom and massive sense.
Newgrange is also older than Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Giza It is in fact just one monument within the Neolithic Brú na Bóinne complex, alongside the similar passage tomb mounds of Knowth and Dowth, and as such is a part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Today, Newgrange is a popular tourist site, and according to the archaeologist Colin Renfrew, is " unhesitatingly regarded by the prehistorian as the great national monument of Ireland " and is also widely recognised as one of the most important megalithic structures in Europe.
However much Walton was indebted to his helpers, the Polyglot Bible is a great monument of industry and of capacity for directing a vast undertaking, and the Prolegomena ( separately reprinted by Dathe, 1777, and by Francis Wrangham, 1825 ) show judgment as well as learning.
* Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make it known to you that every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected according to the existing customs and beliefs of those to whose faith they are sacred.
" A gifted student in the pursuit we also at humbler distance love, made pilgrimage here, and was engaged in making a drawing of its interesting painted story, when death suddenly stayed the work of the artist, snapping the very pencil in his fingers, and instantly translated him, from picturing the earthly image of the Founder of these courts below, into his immortal presence in the great temple above ... His cunning fingers are mouldering in the dust below, and moss and decay are stealthily obliterating his record outside, but the fidelity and truth of his works remain bright and undimmmed, forming his best and most enduring monument ".
There is a great many monuments and attractions here including a series of Standing Stones to commemorate the boundary stones of the old Royal Burgh and another monument near the bridge to Dalmarnock in Glasgow.

great and China
Morrison points out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet Union or Red China, it is the most vulnerable of the great powers -- Europe of course must be written off out of hand.
The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years.
The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China.
Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.
This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.
To the southeast of this great basin is the Mekong Delta, which extends through Vietnam to the South China Sea.
Even the People's Bank of China has been accorded great latitude due to the difficulty of problems it faces, though in the People's Republic of China the official role of the bank remains that of a national bank rather than a central bank, underlined by the official refusal to " unpeg " the yuan or to revalue it " under pressure ".
Under the Han Dynasty, China made great advances in many areas of the arts and sciences.
Its prominence outside China is due to the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong.
Motivated by his sense of nationalism, he viewed some Western ideas as foreign, and he believed that the great introduction of Western ideas and literature that the May Fourth Movement promoted was not beneficial to China.
There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.
The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time.
According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.
The Hungarian ethnomusicologist Bence Szabolcsi explained this motivation as follows: " Hungarians are the outermost branch leaning this way from age-old tree of the great Asian musical culture rooted in the souls of a variety of peoples living from China through Central Asia to the Black Sea ".
This action was also of great importance for the Communist Party of China, as it has been argued that following the Nanjing Massacre Chiang's failure to break off the Trautmann Mediation led to the perception that the entire Kuomintang was weak.
As a result, Mao is still officially held in high regard by many in China as a great political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation.
There seems little immediate likelihood that North Korea will undergo an East German-style transition: a prospect that South Korea and China view with great trepidation because of the fear of a sudden and large exodus of North Korean refugees into their countries.
Indeed, a great many of the refugees fleeing to China because of famine still showed significant support for the current government as well as pride in their homeland.
There are 15 members of the Security Council, consisting of five veto-wielding permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — based on the great powers that were the victors of World War II, and 10 elected non-permanent members with two-year terms.
The great powers that were the victors of the war — the United States, Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, and France — became the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Although he has a tomb in China, it is empty: he was, like many great admirals, buried at sea.
Capitalism made great changes to the economies of communist countries like China and Vietnam.
This period, known as the Spring and Autumn Period, was when great philosophers of China, such as Confucius, Laozi, and Mozi lived.
The plot meanders around the globe to such far-flung locations as Las Vegas ( where a potentially deadly, secret U. S. government-developed mutated anthrax epidemic has been accidentally unleashed ); Atlantis ( where Howard, the talking porpoise, and his porpoise aides help Hagbard battle the Illuminati ); Chicago ( where someone resembling John Dillinger was killed many years ago ); and to the island of Fernando Pó ( the location of the next great Cold War standoff between Russia, China and the USA ).

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