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A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.
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The development of this department at the British Museum moved the focus for the development of conservation from Germany to Britain, and in 1956 Plenderleith wrote a significant handbook called The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, it was this book rather than Rathgen's that is commonly seen as the major source for the development of conservation as we know it today.
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Christology was a major focus of these debates, and was addressed at every one of the first seven ecumenical councils.
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As the German army seized Helsinki, the White Army shifted its military focus to Viipuri, taking it on 29 April 1918 with a major attack of 18, 500 men, against 15, 000 Red troopers.
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There he had taught and been a major influence over Thomas Jefferson, and had formed the focus of a local group of intellectuals.
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The electronic band structure model became a major focus not only for the study of metals but even more so for the study of semiconductors.
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These actions affect their characters in different ways, and dealing with the repercussions of having done the " right " ( but unpleasant ) thing is often the major focus of his short stories.
Both became the focus of major experimental physics efforts starting in the early 1980s.
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As the Atlantic Fleet post was a major command, the Admiralty were very unimpressed and his attitude nearly ruined his career.
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After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in many major movie roles and on television, finishing her acting career in 1980.
Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.
His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films including What Price Hollywood?
Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.
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After playing with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League and in the minor leagues, Aaron started his major league career in 1954.
Beginning his major league career at the relatively advanced age of twenty-eight, he played only ten seasons, all of them for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The experience was the major turning point in her career.
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The American modernist dramatist Eugene O ' Neill's, career began in 1914, but his major works appeared in the 1920s and 1930s and early 1940s.
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