The annals describe in lavish detail 14 campaigns led by Thutmose III in the Levant, the booty gained through his campaigning, tribute received from conquered regions, and, lastly, offerings to Amun-Re.

Jovanka's last official public appearance was on 14 June 1977, at a lavish reception for the Prime Minister of Norway.

Tsunoda 1951: 14 ) records that in 238 CE the Queen of Wa sent officials with tribute to the Wei emperor Cao Rui, who reciprocated with lavish gifts including a gold seal with the official title " Queen of Wa Friendly to Wei ".

She was also criticized by donors, alumni, faculty and community leaders for the growing financial crisis surrounding the lavish Queen's Centre project, which was already some $ 38 million ( nearly 20 %) over budget only 14 months after it began its 10-year construction.

The track " Live It Up " was also extended and remixed for the B-side of the international 12 " single, the 8 minute version was included on the deleted 1994 UK CD edition of Autoamerican but was re-issued as part of EMI's lavish 14 disc Singles Box in 2004.

Mozi spoke against such long and lavish funerals and also argued that this would even create resentment among the living.

Plant built a lavish 500 + room, quarter-mile ( 400 m ) long, US $ 2. 5 million eclectic / Moorish Revival-style luxury resort hotel called the Tampa Bay Hotel among of manicured gardens along the banks of the Hillsborough River.

The old-style single module diners featuring a long counter and a few small booths sometimes now grew additional dining rooms, lavish wallpaper, fountains, crystal chandeliers and Greek statuary.

They married in a lavish ceremony aired in Mexico where everyone witnessed her 35-m long wedding train.

First of all there is the ambassador who has returned from the Persian court after many years, complaining of the lavish hospitality he has had to endure from his Persian hosts ; then there is the Persian grandee, The Eye of the Great King, Pseudartabas, sporting a gigantic eye and mumbling gibberish, accompanied by some eunuchs who turn out to be a disreputable pair of effete Athenians in disguise ; next is the ambassador recently returned from Thrace, blaming the icy conditions in the north for his long stay there at the public's expense ; and lastly there is the rabble of Odomantians who are presented as elite mercenaries willing to fight for Athens but who hungrily steal the protagonist's lunch.

While Moon and Birdboot are understandably extreme examples, Stoppard uses these characters to show how self-aggrandizement can muddle the true purpose of a play through Moon ( who uses the play as an attempt to show off his skills in the brief period where Higgs, the person he is standing in for, is absent ) or how other interests can jeopardize the integrity of a play through Birdboot, who pens lavish reviews as long as there are visually pleasing female leads in the play.

This continued until 1998, long after most other stores cut back on lavish displays.

In 1981, having passed the Fast Fiction stall and distribution to Phil Elliott and before starting Escape, Gravett was employed as promotions manager for Pssst !, an attempt to publish a British equivalent of the lavish French Bande Dessinée magazines.

Also, an overhead shot of Hearst's ranch is shown in the film as Xanadu, the lavish estate where Kane resides.

The extreme detached forts of the Antwerp region and the fortifications on the Meuse at Liège and Namur were constructed in accordance with Brialmonts final principles, viz, the lavish use of armour to protect the artillery inside the forts, the suppression of all artillery positions open to overhead fire, and the multiplication of intermediate batteries.

They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, `` had more confidence in themselves than I did ''.

On Midsummer's Day, Sunday, 1509, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were anointed and crowned together by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

Later that evening, Capitol Records saluted his achievement of selling 100 million albums in the US with a lavish party at Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center.

Illumination or decoration is minimal in many examples, often restricted to decorated capital letters at the start of psalms and other prayers, but books made for wealthy patrons may be extremely lavish, with full-page miniatures.

At the same time, the French masque was gaining a firm hold at the English Court, with even more lavish splendour and highly realistic scenery than had been seen before.

When altruists lavish their resources on non-altruists at the expense of their own kind, the altruists tend to die out and the others tend to grow.

This could be a beach ceremony in the tropics, a lavish event in a metropolitan resort, or a simple ceremony at the home of a geographically distant friend or relative.

And enjoy he did, traveling around Rome at the head of a lavish parade featuring panthers, jesters, and Hanno, a white elephant.

Its storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind-the-rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.

The magazine was accompanied by lavish illustrations and offered readers a source of literature at an affordable cost.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

She also met her daughter Elisabeth at Bayonne near the Spanish border, amidst lavish court festivities.

After retiring from London to live in lavish state at Greenwich, Margaret was occupied with the care of her young son and did not display any signs of overt belligerence until she believed her husband was threatened with deposition by the ambitious Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, who, to her consternation, had been appointed regent while Henry was mentally incapacitated from 1453 to 1454.

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There were reports that she misplaced it at parties, deliberately and frequently, and then make a children's game out of " finding the Hope ", and times when she hid the diamond somewhere on her estate during the " lavish parties she threw and invite guests to find it.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

There are a number of unverifiable stories about Cleopatra, of which one of the best known is that, at one of the lavish dinners she shared with Antony, she playfully bet him that she could spend ten million sesterces on a dinner.

The lavish spectacle made an impression on the young Pavlova, and at the age of nine she was taken by her mother to audition for the renowned Imperial Ballet School.

He took a lavish international " farewell " tour mostly at taxpayers ' expense, without transacting any official business.

Still later, a lease on the Adelphi Theatre on 54th Street and the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street gave the network a site for variety shows, and in 1954, the lavish DuMont Tele-Centre opened in the former Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street.

" While riding along a road on the border of Hel in a lavish cart ( the cart her corpse was burnt within ), Brynhildr encounters a dead giantess at a burial mound belonging to her.

In the 1880s and 1890s he had earned a handsome income as a barrister, but in later years had found it increasingly difficult to sustain his lavish lifestyle, and his mansion at 20 Cavendish Square had had to be sold in the 1920s.

It has been described as " the biggest, most lavish, most expensive thing of its kind " attempted up to that point, with 31 sets, 107 actors, 72 speaking parts, 3, 000 gallons of water and costing $ 95, 000 ($ at present-day prices ).

The Rhone was a favourite among passengers due to her then lightning speed of fourteen knots, and her lavish cabins.

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

He helped those who had been harmed by the Imperial tax system, banished certain sexual deviants, and put on lavish spectacles for the public, such as gladiator battles.

The ancient Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus narrates in his book Jewish Antiquities XII, how the victorious Judas Maccabeus ordered lavish yearly eight-day festivities after rededicating the Temple in Jerusalem that had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

The Philly Sound is typified by lavish percussion and lush strings, which became a prominent part of mid-1970s disco songs.

On the day of the festivities, the Flavian family rode into the capital, preceded by a lavish parade which displayed the spoils of the war.

A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house Elagabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Monroe incurred debts by his lavish lifestyle and often sold property ( including slaves ) to pay them off.

The construction of such lavish mausolea was banned by decree in 317 BC, following which only small columns or inscribed square marble blocks were permitted as grave stones.

Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 ( said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign ), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575.

The words " gossipy and contumaceous " replace the original " lavish or vicious "; and the words following " he must depart " were originally " lest, by sympathy with him, others also become contaminated.

Stephen was also rapidly running out of money: Henry's considerable treasury had been emptied by 1138 due to the costs of running Stephen's more lavish court, and the need to raise and maintain his mercenary armies fighting in England and Normandy.

* Trimalchio's Feast is alluded to in the short story " Toga Party " by John Barth, which was included in The Best American Short Stories 2007, in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party.

The prominence of Hubbard's name and the lavish funding of the contest awards, publicity and ceremonies have led some to speculate that the contest is part of a campaign by the Church of Scientology to promote Hubbard's status in the science fiction and literary communities.

* The Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng is buried ( approximate date ) with lavish tomb items including a 65 set of bronze bells ( bianzhong ) with five octave musical scale and two musical tones that can be produced by each bell.

It is held during the week leading up to Ash Wednesday, and typically includes masked balls, fancy dress and grotesque mask competitions, lavish late-night parties, a colourful, ticker-tape parade of allegorical floats presided over by King Carnival ( Maltese: ir-Re tal-Karnival ), marching bands and costumed revellers.

The set design, overseen by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was lavish and advertised as historically accurate, though the reviewer for the time complained of such anachronisms as gold crowns and printed books as props.

" Jackson wrote that a lavish government combined with contempt of the constituents could lead to despotism, if not checked by the " voice of the people ".

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Thenceforward the grants made by John I were renewed, and extended on so lavish a scale that the Braganza estates alone comprised about a third of the whole kingdom.

Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some of MGM's most popular performers in a lavish two-hour revue.